Lot 239: CARVER, GEORGE WASHINGTON. 1864-1943. 4 items: 1. Autograph Letter Signed ("G.W. Carver") to Ford Davis ("My Beloved Boy Mr. Davis") expressing a dream that they might take a lecture tour of the South together,

CARVER, GEORGE WASHINGTON. 1864-1943.
4 items: 1. Autograph Letter Signed ("G.W. Carver") to Ford Davis ("My Beloved Boy Mr. Davis") expressing a dream that they might take a lecture tour of the South together, 2 pp, 4to, on Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute letterhead, July 16, 1933, old folds, clean.2. Autograph Letter Signed ("G.W. Carver") also to Ford Davis ("My Dear boy, Mr. Davis"), discussing the importance of calcium, 1 p, on Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute letterhead, June 25, 1932, old folds, clean.3. Tuskegee Institute Chapel Bulletin," Vol 1, no 3, September 24, 1933, 2 pp, annotated by Carver to p 2, where he has written in ink "This is what you mean to me," over the poem "This is Friendship," drawing a line along the first four stanzas beginning "I love you not only for what you are...."4. Photograph Signed ("G.W. Carver"), 4 x 5 inch gelatin silver print, with stamped "0051" to verso, with owners address in ink, "J.E. Hales ... Charlotte, N.C."IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF CARVER MATERIAL TO FORD DAVIS, including a very tender letter (July 16, 1933), remarkable for its familiar tone, "I know you know exactly what I mean when I say beloved boy ... Dear, I believe you look better than ever, so much more intellectual. Your skin is not the fresh baby pink that I like, but a few massages will bring it back again." He continues with his vision for a lecture and investigative tour, "My mind keeps telling me that the time is now ripe for a trip even in parts of the South where we could be together unmolested ... and have you recognized as a coming scientist ... it hurts my very soul to think I cannot have the very one that God has endowed with a brain, spirit and personality to fit into this great work, simply because of complexion and nationality."